Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 238 · Decided 16 March 2023
Ravasaheb @ Ravasahebgouda ETC. v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 238 · [2023] 2 S.C.R. 965
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1109/2010
- Decided
- 16 March 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Victim was murdered - The trial court and the High Court, despite most of the prosecution witnesses turning hostile, found the prosecution case to be established beyond reasonable doubt through the unrefuted testimony of PW-1 and convicted the accused consideration on appeal was, whether eight men can be convicted based on the testimony of a solitary witness, who was the only eyewitness to the crime - Held: Presence of the accused on the spot is not disputed by anyone - Witness, despite being cross-examined extensively, is
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